luckily, I find it much easier to ignore google ads than I do TV ads. (Various ad-blockers do a good job in most other cases.)
On 8/22/05, ravi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Devine wrote: > > I recently installed "Google desktop," which seems a worthy program. > > Interestingly, it's free. As far as I can tell, it doesn't involve any > > advertising. Howe does Google make a profit? > > > > through adsense and related advertising: 1) the stuff that comes up in a > box on the right when you search in google (or use gmail), 2) the ads > that show up on various sites which are fed by google. > > they also make a small bit of money by selling their search technology. > > --ravi > -- Jim Devine "Blessed are the pizza-makers." [explanation: I suggested this slogan to a local pizza parlor. They posted in on their sign. They didn't know that this was a blow against the local Hope Chapel, which posts religious slogans, often fundamentalist ones.]
